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Mrs. Sartoris - Elke Schmitter

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Title
Mrs. Sartoris - a novel
Author
Elke Schmitter
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20031002

An explosive first novel - Madame Bovary in modern Germany - about a wife and mother whose failed love affairs have driven her to the edge of sanity and to a startling attempt at vindication. After being jilted by a rich boyfriend, Margaret, eighteen and heartbroken, throws herself into a comfortable but stifling marriage to Ernst, a war veteran with a penchant for routine and order, who still lives with his mother in a small German village.

It's not a bad life, considering Margaret's psychological scars, but neither Ernst's adoration nor the birth of a daughter can reawaken her frozen emotions. Until she slides into an affair with a married man with whom she plans to run away. Her plan is a fantasy that cannot possibly come true. Its repercussions nevertheless will explode with unimaginable force in these astonished lives.

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Elke Schmitter was born in 1961 in Krefeld, Germany and studied philosophy in Munich. She worked as a journalist until 1994, when she became a full-time writer.

Type
BOOK
Keyword Index
Middle aged women - Germany - Fiction.
Country of Publication
England
Number of Pages
143

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